Summer Olympic Games Paris 2024 News

[intoronto 6,887]

3 hours ago, phelps said:

so, handball gets screwed and has to play the preliminary in a small hall with no air conditioning in the middle of Summer...

 

If I were the IHF, I'd never accept this, If I were the French NT's handball players, a strike would start immediately...

One would assume AC would be built in before 2024?

[phelps 8,687]

3 minutes ago, intoronto said:

One would assume AC would be built in before 2024?

no, because it's a temporary venue...

normally it's an exhibition pavillion with no relation to sport events...

that's why the basketball players and FIBA didn't want their tournament to be hosted in that location (the 9m "only" roof was just an excuse, and it would be the same problem for handball, in case)...

[PHI2019 325]

 What will they think of next?
 

World Athletics to introduce repechage round at  Paris 2024

 

 

The World Athletics Council has approved an innovation to the regular competition format for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, introducing a repechage round to all individual track events from 200m to 1500m in distance, including the hurdles events.

 

In the new repechage format, athletes who do not qualify by place in round one heats, will have a second chance to qualify for the semi-finals by participating in repechage heats.

 

https://www.worldathletics.org/news/press-releases/repechage-round-paris-2024-olympics-budapest-entry-standards

[dcro 10,211]

Apparently, nobody wants to see lucky losers coming through and winning medals. Who knew?

[phelps 8,687]

5 minutes ago, PHI2019 said:

 What will they think of next?
 

World Athletics to introduce repechage round at  Paris 2024

 

 

The World Athletics Council has approved an innovation to the regular competition format for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, introducing a repechage round to all individual track events from 200m to 1500m in distance, including the hurdles events.

 

In the new repechage format, athletes who do not qualify by place in round one heats, will have a second chance to qualify for the semi-finals by participating in repechage heats.

 

https://www.worldathletics.org/news/press-releases/repechage-round-paris-2024-olympics-budapest-entry-standards

 

they're crazy...

 

so, unless you're at the absolute top of the game, now going as fast as you can is not enough anymore...you need to be lucky with the draw of the people you're going to face in your heat -and possible repechage round (and in the shorter distances also with the lane draw) if you want to have a chance to go through the following round...

 

and moreover, you have to run one more round than your strongest opponents in case you make it through to the semis (which is going to kill your chances to make another round of the event)...

 

imho, that's unfair to half of the athletes (at least) and a clear incentive to dope more and more, as the requirements are always tougher...

[hckošice 16,605]

maybe an elimination race will be fine too, you know, run the 100m until only two will left..

 

same for 10000m run 25 races until the last 2 stands

 

Anyway off topic but I just read today that from Brisbane 2032 all olympic Swimming competitions will be held on the 25m pool ! I swear it is written here  https://www.olympic.sk/clanok/olympijske-hry-2024-v-parizi-ktore-sa-zacnu-uz-o-dva-roky-budu-v-duchu-inovacii

 

...These standards correspond not only to the sustainable ambitions of the IOC, but also of the International Swimming Federation (FINA). In an effort to further support the sustainability of the Olympic Games, the IOC proposed to reduce the size of the Olympic pool from 50 to 25 meters and to use digital technologies and robots instead of timers.  The changes should apply after the 2032 Olympics in Brisbane....

[heywoodu 16,459]

1 hour ago, PHI2019 said:

 What will they think of next?
 

World Athletics to introduce repechage round at  Paris 2024

 

 

The World Athletics Council has approved an innovation to the regular competition format for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, introducing a repechage round to all individual track events from 200m to 1500m in distance, including the hurdles events.

 

In the new repechage format, athletes who do not qualify by place in round one heats, will have a second chance to qualify for the semi-finals by participating in repechage heats.

 

https://www.worldathletics.org/news/press-releases/repechage-round-paris-2024-olympics-budapest-entry-standards

I'm both in favour of and against this  

 

The time-based thing is excellent, but especially for the Olympics I also like the fact that this gives the athletes from minor countries, who'd certainly be far from any qualifying spot, a second chance to compete and show themselves.

 

It's always kind of sad to see an athlete from Micronesia or something compete for a few seconds and then that's their Olympics.

[heywoodu 16,459]

17 minutes ago, hckošice said:

maybe an elimination race will be fine too, you know, run the 100m until only two will left..

 

same for 10000m run 25 races until the last 2 stands

 

To be honest, an elimination race like in track cycling...I'd absolutely watch that  

 

Laps are longer of course, so the format has to change a little to not let it take too long. Maybe the last two or three athletes every lap, or two separate lines on the track where the last placed athlete is eliminated.

[dcro 10,211]

Add another problem. If athletes can no longer qualify by time, then what's to stop them from walking 200-1500 m in the heats?

[heywoodu 16,459]

4 minutes ago, dcro said:

Add another problem. If athletes can no longer qualify by time, then what's to stop them from walking 200-1500 m in the heats?

Yeah, if you've got a 200m heat with two or three fairly regular sub-20 runners and you've got a 20.20 PB, you might as well just put all your cards on the repechage...

 

This sort of feels like the one time a few years ago they changed the Formula 1 qualifying format. They'd all set a time for some minutes and from a certain moment, every minute the last-placed rider would be eliminated. Resulting in everyone going for it for a few minutes and the track being entirely empty - as in, literally nobody was driving - for the remainder of the session  They did quickly scrap that.